An open architecture for automatic code generation using the BEACON CACE environment

This paper will present the open and extendible architecture of the BEACON modeling and code generation system. We will explain the mapping between BEACON´s graphical block-diagram “language” and the target code and show how new graphical modeling blocks and their implementational details can be defined to expand BEACON´s capabilities. BEACON is a graphical computer aided control engineering environment which automatically translates block-diagrams into either simulation or real-time computer code. BEACON was developed at GE and has been in production use within the company since the first quarter of 1992